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As Pastoralists Settle - Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of the Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya (Hardcover, And & And)
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As Pastoralists Settle - Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of the Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya (Hardcover, And & And)
Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 1
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Throughout the world's arid regions, and particularly in northern
and eastern Africa, formerly nomadic pastoralists are undergoing a
transition to settled life. Pastoral sedentarization represents a
response to multiple factors, including loss of livestock due to
drought and famine, increased competition for range land due to
growing populations, land privatization or appropriation for
commercial farms, ranches, and tourist game parks, and to fear of
increasing violence, ethnic conflict, and civil war. Although
pastoral settlement is often encouraged by international
development agencies and national governments as solutions to food
insecurity, poor health care and problems of governance, the
social, economic and health concomitants of sedentism are not
inevitably beneficial. Biosocial studies presented in this volume,
for example, point to greater nutritional and health benefits among
nomadic livestock keepers, but increased opportunities in
education, employment, and food security in towns.
This book examines from an interdisciplinary perspective pastoral
sedentarization in one region of Africa - Marsabit District in
northern Kenya - an isolated and arid region bordering Ethiopia and
which contains multiple pastoral groups including Rendille,
Samburu, Ariaal, Borana and Gabra peoples. Within this locale, we
present recent studies conducted by cultural and biological
anthropologists, veterinary biologists, economists, geographers and
medical and community health personnel, linked by the common goal
of delineating the consequences, both positive and negative, of
settlement for formerly nomadic pastoral populations. For many of
these former pastoralists, settled life does notnecessarily
constitute a break with their pastoral kin and neighbors, but
represents one more opportunity with which to survive in a
difficult physical and social environment.
This edited work is a collection of international contributors from
North America, Africa and Europe and focuses on a dilemma that
affects many parts of the indigenous world. This book will be
essential reading for professionals and students of social change
in the developing world particularly in applied anthropology,
development economics, rural sociology, environment and ecology,
and medicine and public health
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